During the Battle of Verdun, which lasted over 300 days in 1916, more than 60 million artillery shells were fired by both sides–many of which contained poisonous gases. These massive bombardments and ...

During action in the hotly embattled area called the Iron Triangle, Pvt. Charles R. Johnson is credited with saving the lives ...

The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempest’s boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair ...

A panel for a new World War I memorial just outside KU's David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium is pictured on Aug. 27, 2025. After more than $400 million in renovations, University of Kansas officials ...

When researcher James Sladden traveled to Ukraine in August 2022 to document the Battle of Irpin River - a Ukrainian victory early in the war with Russia that had taken place just months before - he ...

America’s last known surviving World War II “ace”—a pilot who shot down five enemy planes—has died at age 103. Donald McPherson served as a Navy fighter pilot in the Pacific theater during the war’s ...